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English
Etymology
From Latin #Latin|cento ‘patchwork garment’.

Noun
en-noun|pl=centos or (obsolete) centones

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors.

#*2007: Paradise Lost, as Teskey observes, is a cento, a vast echo chamber of classical texts, all twisted into new shapes. — William Poole, ‘Out of his Furrow’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 16

Italian
Etymology
Latin centum
Pronunciation
cènto, /ˈtʃɛnto/, /<tt>"tSEnto</tt>/
Adjective
cento (invariable)

1. hundred

Noun
cento m

1. hundred

Related terms
centenario
centenne
centesimo
centimetro
centinaio
centumviro
centuplo
centuria

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